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What time does Santa come to Stamford, Connecticut?

Santa is due in Stamford, Connecticut at 9:53 PM Eastern on Christmas Eve.

42 sleeps until Santa comes to Stamford.

North Pole Sleigh LineStop 93 of 599
Your stopStamford
Santa due9:53 PMEastern time

Be asleep by 8:45 PM. He only lands when the lights are out.

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Be asleep by

8:45 PM

He only lands when everyone in Stamford is asleep and the lights are out. Eastern time.

In the flight plan

Stop 93 of 599

He comes from Salisbury, Maryland (9:52 PM ET) and goes on to Baltimore, Maryland (9:53 PM ET).

Sunset in Stamford on Christmas Eve

4:30 PM

It gets dark at 4:30 PM, so there are about 5 hours of night before he lands.

From the North Pole

3,382 miles

How far Stamford is from the North Pole, measured along the earth's surface.

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Near Stamford

  1. Bridgeport, Connecticut20 miles9:37 PM ET
  2. Yonkers, New York21 miles9:51 PM ET
  3. New York City, New York34 miles9:50 PM ET
  4. Paterson, New Jersey34 miles9:51 PM ET
  5. Jersey City, New Jersey36 miles9:50 PM ET

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Questions

What time does Santa come to Stamford?

Santa is due in Stamford, Connecticut at 9:53 PM Eastern on Christmas Eve. Children should be asleep by 8:45 PM, because he only lands when the lights are out. The time is from our make-believe flight plan, and it is the same every year.

When does the Santa tracker start?

The map and every city's time are here all through November and December. On Christmas Eve Santa leaves the North Pole at 5:00 AM Eastern, and the map follows him live, round the world and across America, until he is home at 6:00 AM Eastern on Christmas Day. He reaches Maine, his first American stop, at 9:00 PM Eastern.

Is the Santa tracker real?

The flight plan is ours and it is for fun: we work out Santa's route and times from a timetable, so everyone sees the same sleigh at the same moment. The weather alerts are real, read from the National Weather Service, and so are the sunset times and the distances. For the worldwide trackers, NORAD has followed Santa every Christmas Eve since 1955, and Google runs its own Santa Tracker.

Does it cost anything, and what happens to my ZIP code?

The tracker is free and there is nothing to sign up for. Your ZIP code stays in your browser: it reads a small file from our site that covers every ZIP code starting with the same three digits, and finds yours inside it. The full ZIP code is never sent to us or anyone else, and it is not stored.

Santa's flight plan is make-believe, worked out from where you live. The weather alerts are real, from the National Weather Service.

Sunset times are worked out with the standard solar calculation. Distances are along the earth's surface.

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